Lands of Lore 1 & 2 land on GOG

The first two games in Westwood Studios' vintage RPG series Lands of Lore are the latest from EA's portfolio to arrive on digital distributor Good Old Games, landing today in a $5.99 double-pack.

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The first two games in Westwood Studios' vintage RPG series Lands of Lore are the latest from EA's portfolio to arrive on digital distributor Good Old Games, landing today in a $5.99 double-pack.

Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, released in 1993, was a classic turn-based, Dungeon Master-style RPG of corridors and clicking. The 1997 sequel, however, took the series into real-time 3D with that most glorious technological wonder of the CD-ROM era--digitised characters.

You can buy the pair over on GOG, if you have fond memories of them to relive. Perhaps you might share some of your memories to help those who've never played them make up their minds?

Though Westwood is perhaps best-remembered nowadays for the Command & Conquer series, it did develop a number of RPGs and adventure games. Those tailed off after it was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1998. EA ultimately shut down the studio in 2003, merging with others to form EA Los Angeles.

A third Lands of Lore game was released in 1999. One might hazard a guess that we'll be seeing that on GOG some time too.

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    November 15, 2011 6:15 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Lands of Lore 1 & 2 land on GOG.

    The first two games in Westwood Studios' vintage RPG series Lands of Lore are the latest from EA's portfolio to arrive on digital distributor Good Old Games, landing today in a $5.99 double-pack.

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      November 15, 2011 6:16 AM

      Lands of Lore 1 was a great, great game back in the day.

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        November 15, 2011 6:20 AM

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          November 15, 2011 6:48 AM

          Same. I tried really hard to like 2, and was so excited when it got GLIDE optimizations (3dfx for life), but it was a mess compared to 1 and I never did finish it.

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            November 15, 2011 6:56 AM

            It's still very good, despite the change in gameplay. It's tough though

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          November 15, 2011 6:52 AM

          3 went kind of nuts with morphing into a monster didn't it?

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      November 15, 2011 6:43 AM

      I loved these games!

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      November 15, 2011 6:55 AM

      Oh fuck yeah. Quality games right there. LOL1 is one of my favs

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      November 15, 2011 7:08 AM

      I hope this is gonna lead up to Blade Runner. Are the Legend of Kyrandia games any good?

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        November 15, 2011 7:47 AM

        I never played Blade Runner, and on several occasions I almost bought it because of the shack talk about it.

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      November 15, 2011 7:25 AM

      lands of lore was one of my first rpgs :3

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      November 15, 2011 7:28 AM

      One day we'll get System Shock :(

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      November 15, 2011 8:12 AM

      LoL1 was great. First game I got to use my Sound Blaster on. That intro where the horse runs across the bridge and you hear Patrick Stewart's voice... amazing!

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      November 15, 2011 9:50 PM

      Wow. I adored the first one, could never get into the sequels tho didn't have quite the same magic.

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